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On Calabi-Yau supermanifolds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that a Kahler supermetric on a supermanifold with one complex fermionic dimension admits a super Ricci-flat supermetric if and only if the bosonic metric has vanishing scalar curvature. As a corollary, it follows that Yau's theorem does not hold for supermanifolds.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408188,
  title  = {On Calabi-Yau supermanifolds},
  author = {Martin Rocek and Neal Wadhwa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408188},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages